Keyword: «medical workers»

This article explores the peculiarities of medical workers’ labor legal regulation, which differ from the general rules established by labor legislation. The author comes to the conclusion that the labor of medical workers has sufficient specificity for the legal regulation of these peculiarities to be registered in a separate chapter of the RF Labor Code.

This article analyzes the concept of «medical error», considers the classification of medical errors for reasons, in particular: diagnostic errors; therapeutic and tactical errors; technical errors; organizational errors and deontological errors. It is noted that the basis for the onset of civil liability is the presence of the composition of a civil offense. The article also emphasizes that medical workers are not responsible for a medical error, but for the harm caused to the patient as a result of this error.